Wednesday, July 6th 2022
| 3:00 p.m. | Check-In |
| 3:15 p.m. | Conference Opening – Welcome (Directors Andrew James Johnston & Anita Traninger) |
| 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. | Panel 1: Communities in Time Andrew James Johnston, Beowulfian Anticipations: Wealhtheow’s Conflicted Modernisms Bernd Roling, To Free a Soul from Hell: The Debate on Trajan’s Salvation between Late Antiquity and Early Modern Theology |
| 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. | Panel 2: Planetary Modernities, Modern Temporalities Carolyn Dinshaw, White Times: The Many Temporalities of the Arctic Susan Stanford Friedman, “What we do not forget is forever in the future”: Modernities of Oceania |
Thursday, July 7th 2022
Friday, July 8th 2022
| 1:30 – 3:30 p.m | Panel 3: Global Anticipations Thomas Fröhlich, Shifting Temporalities in Chinese Discourses on the Modern West in the Early Twentieth Century and Early Twenty-First Century Jahan Ramazani, World Elegy, Anticipatory Mourning, and Ecocritique |
| 4:00 – 6:00 p.m | Panel 4: Mapping Modernities Vilashini Cooppan, Time-Maps: Modernity, Spatiotemporality, and Postcolonial Futures Prathama Banerjee, Disorienting Times and the Crisis of Modernity: South Asian Reflections |
| 6:30 – 8:30 p.m | Panel 5: Projections Sanja Bahun, Active Thought and Future Perfect: Reading History and Expression with the Belgrade Surrealist Circle Ana Rocío Jouli, The Neo-Baroque as Writing Community |
| 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. | Panel 6: Encounters Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, Encounters in Works on Paper: Beirut, Baghdad, Beijing Alexandra Chreiteh, Anticipating the Arab(ic) Gothic: a Forgotten Prehistory of the Modern Novel |
| 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. | Panel 7: Liminal Anticipations Simon Godart, Francis Bacon Against Anticipation Mark Currie, Anticipation in an Age of Uncertainty |